A lot of my autistic meltdowns happen after I’ve explained myself over and over and still don’t feel understood. I’m not trying to win. I’m trying to be understood.
ADHD questionnaires be like
“Do you get bored in boring meetings”
“Have you ever shifted in your chair unnecessarily”
“Do you have trouble starting tasks you think are stupid”
Olivia Rodrigo is only beginning to metabolize her countercultural influences on a melodic, new-wave-inflected record that features Robert Smith of the Cure and calls to mind the Smashing Pumpkins and the Breeders.
https://t.co/tS9LZyUZW4
Olivia Rodrigo’s third album charts new sonic ground for the 23-year-old pop singer, inching away from frisky, impish pop-punk and leaning more toward New Wave, with its melodic synthesizers and velvety yearning. https://t.co/hXs81117df
What's most infuriating about the Musk trillionaire shit is that his enterprise is built almost exclusively on gov contracts. It's not just that he's expropriating our wealth in an abstract way -- his fortune is built on the tax dollars we pay, that he then obtains through graft.
“no person who works a full-time job should live in poverty”
nobody actually deserves to live in poverty. let go of the idea that we work in exchange for our worth. people are innately worthy and deserving of the basics.
America is dotted with mid-sized regional hub cities like Chattanooga that are in general the closest to a best of all possible worlds as far as urban life/rural life mixture a place can get, lots of cultural activities and cool urban aesthetics with generally more manageable traffic and lower cost of living than the “big” cities.
People in the big cities spend much of their time shitting on these lovely manageably sized regional hubs because they’ve never been to them and are by and large the most provincial closed minded people you’ll ever meet
The Nashville Zoo is fighting against a new data center in Tennessee due to it being built around 50 yards away from the zoo.
They've got over 230,000 signatures on a petition demanding construction be halted for safety of their animals.